IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation is a rigorously peer-reviewed journal disseminating relevant knowledge and developments in the organization and structure of rapidly evolving multi-energy supply and demand systems. It publishes articles on energy system frameworks, policies, and regulations, such as multi-tier energy market structures, pricing policies, and auction rules. The Journal promotes the decarbonization of supply, distribution, and demand in multi-energy systems, and drives robust and sustainable investments in resilient and green energy systems considering all stakeholders’ needs. Published articles are supported by detailed engineering, economic and policy analyses and assessments of the topics discussed, based on relevant principles, models, techniques and tools.

Topics within the journal scope:

Energy Markets:

    Economics and assessment of energy markets
    Design, clearing, pricing and settlement of markets for energy, capacity, flexibility and ancillary services
    Interactions between markets
    Economics of renewables, demand response and storage
    Retail electricity markets
    Retail tariff design
    Peer-to-peer and local trading
    Market participation, market power and market monitoring
    Congestion management and redispatch
    Risk management
    Impact on energy markets of environmental policies such as constraints, emissions trading, and renewables support mechanisms
    Investments in market assets
    Bidding strategies
    Energy finance
    Emissions trading
    Water/energy nexus

Energy Policy:

    Policies of rural electrification, microgrids and rural development
    Net-zero economics and policy
    Energy, climate, and environmental justice
    Impacts of society-scale electrification on the electric power sector
    Incentives for system development
    Impact assessments of energy policies
    Multi-energy systems and market coupling
    Policies to support innovations in the energy sector
    Development of data and scenarios for system expansion

Regulation:

    Network cost allocation and tariff design
    Regulation of network monopolies
    Rate design and Incentive regulation
    Cost-benefit analysis of network investments
    Impact assessments of regulations
    Market power and market monitoring
    Transmission and distribution expansion and planning
    Integrated resource planning
    Economics of reliability and resiliency.

Examples of topics out-of-scope:

    Papers whose primary focus is the development of an analysis or optimization technique and address energy markets, policy, and regulation issues only in an incidental manner.